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Amerigo Vespucci (/ v ɛ ˈ s p uː tʃ i / vesp-OO-chee, [1] Italian: [ameˈriːɡo veˈsputtʃi]; 9 March 1454 – 22 February 1512) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence for whom "America" is named.
1499 – Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci explores the mouth of the Amazon River and reaches 6°S latitude, in present-day northern Brazil. [8] 1499 – João Fernandes Lavrador, together with Pêro de Barcelos, sight Labrador. [9] 1499 – Gaspar and Miguel Corte-Real reach and map Greenland. [10]
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From the early 15th century to the early 17th century the Age of Discovery had, through Portuguese seafarers, and later, Spanish, Dutch, French and English, opened up southern Africa, the Americas (New World), Asia and Oceania to European eyes: Bartholomew Dias had sailed around the Cape of southern Africa in search of a trade route to India; Christopher Columbus, on four journeys across the ...
November 1 – Amerigo Vespucci discovers and names Baía de Todos os Santos in Brazil. [2] Gaspar Corte-Real makes the first known landing in North America by a Western European explorer this millennium. [3] Rodrigo de Bastidas becomes the first European to explore the Isthmus of Panama. [3]
A special position was created for Vespucci, the "pilot major" (chief of navigation) in 1508. He had the responsibility of training new pilots for ocean voyages. His nephew Juan Vespucci inherited his famous uncle's maps, charts, and nautical instruments, and was appointed to Amerigo's former position as official Spanish government pilot at ...
Vespucci's account states that the expedition reached the latitude "South Pole elevation 52° S", in the "cold" latitudes of what is now southern Patagonia, before turning back. Vespucci wrote that they headed toward the southwest and south, following "a long, unbending coastline", apparently coincident with the southern South American coast.
Since the first voyage of Christopher Columbus, the Catholic Monarchs of Spain had expected but not received word of a western passage to la Especiería. [1] As the years wore on, the lack of progress became so glaringly obvious that on 13 March 1505 and again on 23 August 1506, Vicente Yáñez Pinzón and Amerigo Vespucci were especially commissioned to redeem the frustrated record by ...